Priska Pasquer Gallery is pleased to present a selection of photographs from the most famous series of Chargesheimer from the period 1950 to 1970.

Chargesheimer (Karl Heinz Hargesheimer, 1924 - 1971) belongs among the most outstanding artists of his generation - as photographer, sculptor, stage designer and director. The press called Chargesheimer a "restlessly proliferative creative spirit" and an artist "who loves to provoke."
Chargesheimer began his career in 1947 as an independent photographer for various theaters in Germany. Towards the end of the 1940s he was in contact with the photographic group "fotoform." In 1950 he participated in the "photo-kino" exhibition in Cologne and also in the legendary exhibitions of "Subjective Photography" in 1952 and 1954.
At the core of Chargesheimer's photographic oeuvre, alongside portraiture and experimental photography, stands his Street Photography, depictions of street life in Cologne and other cities of post-war Germany. These works were as a rule put by Chargesheimer into different series, and from 1957 to 1970 published in book form.